This day in Trinity Universe history: threats from the East

[aberrantangels]

Ongoing flashback.

1924
[Adventure!] The Ponatowski Foundation of Poland announces its intent to dredge the Black Sea for signs of ancient civilizations.

The archaeologically-oriented Foundation provides funding to the criminal operations of Ivan Boris Vladimirovich Stayansky, the would-be Czar of all the Russias. (Yes, I know Adventure! gives his surname as "Staynskaya", but it and Aberrant contain a number of such names, names that demonstrate that White Wolf staffers know jack all about the gendering of Russian surnames.)

1999
[Aberrant] T2M receives its baptism of fire when it smashes its way into the Al-Burhan, Iran, headquarters of Islamic Dawn. The compound is secured inside three minutes with no harm to the Teamers.

I mentioned this last year as one of the reasons the September 11 attacks probably didn't happen in the TU. (Another is that President Schroer's national security advisor, unlike Condoleezza Rice, probably didn't ignore Sandy Berger's advice to keep a close eye on al-Qaeda, but that's neither here nor there.)

Comments

[cal.livejournal.com]

Is there a Russian Revolution in the TU?

[aberrantangels]

Yes. Stayansky wants to reverse it. ^_^

[cal.livejournal.com]

Hm. I'm pretty sure in the real world the last (real) attempt to do that was stopped in 1920.

[aberrantangels]

His attempt doesn't succeed either, or at least not in a way that leaves any traces by the time Aberrant rolls around.